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Friday, May 09, 2008

I'd love to have gardens filled with gorgeous flowers around our yard. If only I loved to garden. This probably comes as a disappointment to some of you, because I know there are some fabulous gardeners out there. However, at this point in my life, I just don't love to do it. I hate to weed. I never water. I just find that the time it takes to tend to a garden would be better spent knitting. Or sewing. Or just being. The one thing I love most is flowers inside. So truly. I just really need a cutting garden.So, a couple of years ago, my husband built three raised beds in a corner of our yard. One for vegetables. One for herbs. And the other for my cutting flowers. Just a small area to water. I could even get the kids to help with it.We saw the commercial about the roll and grow garden. We all laughed and said that is exactly what I need. Charlie said it was like "cheating". I ordered it and rolled it out. We watered. And flowers grew. Just like the commercial said.We enjoyed flowers from this garden into the fall.

So, if you aren't much of a gardener, this truly is easy, and really does work.

We are going to try something different this year. A friend gave me packages of Martha Stewart's seeds. This weekend, the kids are going to sprinkle them in that space and hopefully a garden will grow.

Fascinating! I had never heard of the row and grow. But, I love to garden, and would feel like your husband ... that I was "cheating". It's true that it does steal a lot of time away from my other hobbies, but I think it is worth it.

I feel the same way you do! I love pretty flowers in the garden, but hate gardening. My hubby built raised boxes last year too for veggies and we had 400lb of organic soil delivered. We've had issues with the soil which I mention on my daily blog, and I'm about ready to give up on trying to grow things.I said I just want some flowers in my yard! I think I might buy this roll out stuff, I saw the commercial and it looked too good to be true. Glad to hear that it works.Have a super weekend, and Happy Mother's Day :-)

Just found your beautiful blog via assemblage via moonstitches! Anyway, I am with you on gardening. As much as my husband and I love the end results and the beauty of a garden (both veggies and flowers), we both agreed that we don't exactly savor the process. That seed mat looks very interesting...

I totally agree with you. Love flowers, love seeing them all over the house. Do not like to grow them or weed or garden. I watch my neighbors working all the time on their beautiful flowers and yard and know that they must think I'm the laziest person on the planet. But I just sit on the front porch and read or knit or drink a glass of tea and watch the world go by.

Hey! I just saw those 'roll and grow' kits a couple weeks ago, and although I thought a little strange I was very interested. (I love cut flowers and although I try, I'm really am not a good gardener) So glad to see that it actually works. Your flowers are so pretty! :)

What I hate about gardening is the toads! We have a ton in our garden and I flip out whenever one sneaks up on me! (so silly! but true! I usually run in the house and say that's it! Back to knitting!)

A woman after my own heart! I LOVE flowers but somehow when the "green thumbs" were dispersed I was absent that day! My own DM had "the gift" and should have been the Martha Stewart of her day!I've often wondered about those roll-out gardens too...but as one of the postees daid here...their experience grew nothing and that's what I'd fear!!! Maybe I should step out in faith and try one anyway. I do have 3 spots in my yard for flowers and "when" things grow I attribute it to God and not my expertiese!What I don't like it the HEAT of summer, the bugs, the "creepy crawlies", the weeding (it always gets WAY ahead of me) and basically everything--except the end product---involved. I look at the magazines and drool over the gorgeous gardens and the attractive outside rooms and think...where do these people live?? I'm in the upper midwest and to have an outside room would be compared to torture once the mosquitoes, June Bugs etc. show up!!! Keep us updated on the progress of "your" gardens! Love your blog by the way!

I have seen the roll and grow garden and wondered if it really worked! I am glad to know it did because now I will try it. I am with you on the gardening. I wish I loved it more but I feel the exact same way you do - plus it kills my back. Your flowers are lovely!

Oh gosh. I envy the people who can garden. They have the neatest fresh vegetables and flowers, but I just can't do it. I'm like you. I'll forget to water. I'll be focused for maybe a week and then the next thing you know is the tomatoes are brown. This is definitely the type of thing I could get behind.